Numbering machine



. March 10, -E E PH|NNEY I NUMBERING' MACHINE Filed Aug. 12, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet l E. E. PHINNEY NUMBERING MACHINE March 10, 1931.

5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 12. 1929 m Www afffom March 16, 1931. E. E. PHINNEY NUMBERING MACHINE Filed Aug. 12, 1929- 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Mar. 10, 1931 PATENT FFECE EDGAR E. PHINNEY, OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGIIGR TO DEFIANGE MANU- FACTURING CORPORATION, OE ORELNGE, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK NUMBERING MACHINE Application filed August 12, 1929. Serial No. 385,215.

The invention has relation to numbering machines, ant is designed particularly for use in connection with numbering stock certificates.

The object of the invention is to facilitate the numbering of stock certificates of diii'erent design, wherein two lines of printing (for instance the numbering of the certificate in written and numerical characters) be variously spaced with relation to each other.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention Figure 1 is a section of the essential parts of a numbering machine taken on line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 22 oi Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation, with the frame members removed.

In these drawings, the number 1 designates a printing wheel, whereon consecutive numbers are represented by appropriate type, one ine of such type bein in position to print the desired number of words. An indicator wheel 2 and hand wheel 3 are mounted to rotate in fixed connection with the printing wheel 1, the former having a series or figures marked thereon which will be brought into register with a fixed indicator 4 adapted to designate the number which stands in printing position.

A second printing wheel 5 is mounted in sliding bearings 6, and carries a series of nu merical type corresponding to the type on wheel 1. VJheel 5 is designed to be rotated reversely to wheel 1 as the type is set up by hand wheel 3, so that the figures of wheel 5 are arranged in reverse order thereupon.

In order that the wheels 1 and 5 may be set simultaneously by rotation of the hand wheel 5, the former wheels are provided with crown gears 7 and 8 respectively, said crown gears meshing with an elongated spur gear 9 mounted in the frame of the machine. This arrangement permits of the longitudinal adjustment of wheel 5 with relation to wheel 1, since the teeth of crown gear 8 are slideable al ng spur gear 9 without changing the ratio or the drive connection between the wheels, {111C since wheel 5 may be so adjusted without altering the angular or rotative position I ereof.

Wheel 5 is adjusted longitudinally by means of lever 10, having link connection with bearings G, and a clamp screw 11 is provided for holding wheel 5 in adjusted position. The pointer 12 mounted on bearing 6 will indicate the printing position to which wheel 5 has been adjusted.

A printing arm 21, pivoted to the framing at 22 and operated through shaft 14, carries a matrix 15, designed to cooperate with printin wheel 1. The matrix 16 cooperating with the adjustable wheel 5 is carried upon an arm 13, pivoted at 17 to an extension 23 of the sliding bearing 6 and operatively connected to the arm 21 by a plate 2-1, adjustably engaging arm 13.

The stock certificate, or other paper to be printed, is fed between upper and lower guide plates 18 and 19, a suitable adj ustable stop 20 being provided to limit the inward movement of the sheet.

I claim:

1. A gear train for numbering machines and the like, comprising a drive gear, a driven gear radially adjustable relatively thereto in a fixed angular position, and an intermediate gear adapted to provide a constant ratio drive connection between said drive and driven gears in any adjusted position thereof.

2. A gear train for numbering machines and the like, comprising a crown drive gear, a crown driven gear radially adjustable relatively thereto, and an intermediate elongated spur gear adapted to mesh with said drive and driven gears in any adjusted position thereof.

3. In a' numbering machine, two type carrying Wheels relatively adjustable radially of each other in fixed angular position, and means for simultaneously rotating said typecarrying Wheels to set diiferent type into printing position.

4. In a numbering machine, relatively adjustable type carriers, a pivoted arm, and a matrix radially adjustable upon said arm to a plurality of printing positions.

Signed at Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey this 9 day of August A. D. 1929.

EDGAR E. PHINNEY. 

